Opinion
California's been trying to decide whether to allow oil companies to convert their used oil platforms to artificial reefs for several years, and in the latest development, the governor vetoed a bill w...
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Going home is always heavy. Friends and family can really jack up their lives while you’re away. I’ve found the majority of the hometown heaviness involves just three things: Drugs, babies...
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The board of supervisors just handed Santa Barbara County residents a 20-foot length of hose and told them to go blow smoke up their butts.
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Higher rental fees incurred by graduate and undergraduate students slow their academic progress and discourage them from applying to UCSB.
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U.S. politicians have generally agreed, to the point of grandstanding at times, that cloning a human would be an unconscionable and unethical act. They just never got around to outlawing it.
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My home town is full of mutant people! Obese mutants! Acned mutants! Jesus mutants! Mutated Mutants! Witness to such perverse genetic disaster require months of trauma counseling among Santa Barbara&#...
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A rope-and-post fence will delineate a 1,300-foot long area, to direct people around the roost on the wet sand. This will protect 90 percent of the roost area. The majority of the beach is still avail...
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Well at least one good thing may come out of the recent Goleta cityhood vote.
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When people cease to point out our government's faults, usually because they fear the response from others, they give up control over their government's actions.
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Here at the Nexus, we believe in giving credit where credit is due. In the traditional Nexus sloshball game against A.S., held last weekend, there was much that was deserving. For example: although th...
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Let us all give thanks this week. We don't live in a nuke-worthy city, we're not on any government dissident lists, we will remain blissfully ignorant of how jacked up the world is becoming.
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I've heard variations on "America - love it or leave it" far too often recently. It's amazing that people can claim to be patriotic and simultaneously be so ignorant of the values for which our countr...
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"Fucking Pigs" and the like are the words screamed from various parties on DP as the cops walk down the street. How do they react? They laugh it off.
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We've all seen what a bitch it is to park in I.V. I know it's horribly difficult for the car-dependent to drive up and down the street looking for a legal parking space.
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Ends on ‘good terms’ but is blocked on Instagram
Slow fade
Ghosting them on a random Monday
“It’s not you, it’s me”
Drunk Uber “we need to talk” voice memo
Presents a notes app pros and cons list
Asks to still be friends
Drops their stuff off, never speaks to them again
Texts “this isn’t working” then posts from another country
“It’s not me, it’s you”
Tells them they need to focus on Econ 10A
Delivers a hand-written letter to their mom
